Soil & Water Res., 2022, 17(3):149-157 | DOI: 10.17221/144/2021-SWR

Soil organic carbon fractions comparison after 40-year long-term fertilisation in a wheat-corn rotation fieldOriginal Paper

Xiaolu Sun ORCID...1, Jingtao Liu2, Shutang Liu*,2, Wenlong Gao2
1 College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong, P.R. China
2 College of Resources and Environment, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong, P.R. China

Several experimental methods have been developed to fractionate soil organic carbon (SOC) into functional sub-pools. However, which fractions had the potential to better reflect the SOC dynamics responding to fertilisation are still under discussion. Thus, we compared different SOC fractions (microbial biomass carbon, MBC; dissolved organic carbon, DOC; permanganate-oxidisable carbon, POXC; particle organic carbon, POC, and aggregation organic carbon fractions) and the soil respiration rate in a wheat-corn rotation field after 40 years of manure and N fertilisation in North China to search for the most sensitive SOC fractions to fertilisation. Manure increased the organic carbon (OC) contents of all the soil fractions (26.5 to 362.8%) and the POC (18.0 to 43.7%) and macro-aggregation percentages (3.0 to 4.4%), which indicated an increasing physical-protected aggregated OC fraction. N fertilisation alone slightly increased the OC contents of all the soil fractions and DOC percentage, but decreased the macro-aggregation OC percentage, which suggests the increasing possibility that the SOC is exposed to microbial communities causing a decreasing aggregation formation. However, when a high level of both the manure and N fertiliser were applied, the excessive N in the soil stimulates the soil microbial activity and decreases the SOC content comparing it to the same level of the manure fertiliser addition.

Keywords: aggregation organic carbon; dissolved organic carbon; microbial biomass carbon; particle organic carbon; permanganate-oxidisable carbon

Published: June 20, 2022  Show citation

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Sun X, Liu J, Liu S, Gao W. Soil organic carbon fractions comparison after 40-year long-term fertilisation in a wheat-corn rotation field. Soil & Water Res. 2022;17(3):149-157. doi: 10.17221/144/2021-SWR.
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